OUR DAILY BREAD : FINDING OUR CALLING

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March 2
Monday


FINDING
OUR CALLING

READ:
Ephesians 4:1-16
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A continuing struggle as we seek to follow Christ is trying to find our calling in life. While we often think in terms of occupation and location, perhaps a more important issue is one of character--the being that undergirds doing. "Lord, who do You want me to be?"

In Ephesians 4, Paul wrote, "I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called" (v.1). He followed this with three "be's," as one translation renders it: be humble, be gentle, be patient, "bearing with one another in love" (v.2NIV). Paul wrote this from prison, a difficult place where he continued to live out his calling from God.

Oswald Chambers said: "Consecration is not the giving over of the calling in life to God, but the separation from all other callings and the giving over of ourselves to God, letting His providence place us where He will--in business, or law, or science; in workshop, in politics, or in drudgery. We are to be there working according to the laws and principles of the kingdom of God."

When we are the right people before God, we can do whatever task He sends, wherever He puts us. In so doing, we discover and affirm His calling for us. __david McCasland
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````````````````You are called with a holy calling``````````````````
``````````````````The light of the world to be;````````````````````
````````````````To lift up the lamp of the gospel```````````````````
``````````````That others the light may see. __Anon.``````````````
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It's not what you do but who you are
that's most important.

***************Today's Bible Reading __ Ephesians 4:1-16*********

1 I, therefore, the prisoner
of the Lord, beseech you to
walk worthy of the calling
with which you were called,

2 with all lowliness and
gentleness, with
longsuffering, bearing
with one another in love,

3 endeavoring to keep the
unity of the spirit in the
bond of peace. 4 There is one
body and one Spirit, just as
you were called in one hope
of your calling; 5 one Lord,
one faith, one baptism; 6 one
God and father of all, who is
above all, and through all,
and in you all.

7 But to each one of us
grace was given according to
the measure of Christ's gift.

8 Therefore He says: "When
He ascended on high, He led
captivity captive, and gave
gifts to men." ... 11 And he
Himself gave some to be
apostles, some prophets,
some evangelists, and some
pastors and teachers, 12 for
the equipping of the saints
for the work of ministry, for
the edifying of the body of
christ, 13 till we all come to
the unity of the faith and of
the knowledge of the son of
God, to a perfect man, to the
measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ; 14 that we
should no longer be children,
tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of
doctrine, by the trickery of
men.... 15 but, speaking the
truth in love, may grow up in
all things into Him who is
the head--Christ-- 16 from
whom the whole body,
joined and knit together by
what every joint supplies,
according to the effective
working by which every part
does its share, causes growth
of the body for the edifying
of itself in love.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

In today's Bible reading, Paul reminds the believer of the amazing
nature of the "unity of the Spirit" (v.3). It is a unity that not only
includes our relationship with God but with one another as well.
__Bill Crowder